Monday, June 12, 2017

Transgender Fraud

A transgender “woman” sued the state of Idaho recently,
claiming the state violated “her” free
speech rights by declining “her” request to change the gender on “her” birth certificate. In truly Orwellian
fashion, “she” complains that Idaho’s “stigmatizing refusal” to issue revised birth certificates is a
violation of First Amendment rights because it “prevents transgender
individuals from accurately expressing their gender,” and further violates their rights “to refrain from speaking by
forcing them to disclose their transgender status and to identify with a gender
that conflicts with who they are.”

A violation of free speech rights? I can say I’m a rainbow trout- or a Ford
Mustang for that matter- but that doesn’t mean I am one. The “lady” in question has changed “her” name on “her”
official identification and documents. The 28-year-old was born male in Hawaii,
and claims that the Aloha State issued “her” a driver’s license that says “she’s”
female, so “she” is gob-smacked that stuffy, old, intransigent Idaho’s Bureau
of Vital Records and Health Statistics won’t change the gender listed on “her”
birth certificate.

Bizarrely, “she” says that by
refusing to issue these revised birth certificates, the state “subjects
[transgender people] to discrimination, privacy invasions, harassment,
humiliation, stigma and even violence.” Quite the opposite. “She” has very
capably done much of that on “her” own.

Whether or not a person believes that
sloughing off a body part here and adding one there later in life can somehow
change the genetic code programming every cell in a person’s body, one’s birth certificate is a simple statement
of fact. It would be a flat-out lie, requiring a forged document and the
outright commitment of fraud to list someone as the opposite of the sex they
obviously, clinically, physically are at the time of their birth. Penis? Check.
Scrotum and testes? Check. It’s a girl!

So much for the scientific method.

Or is “she” trying to say that “she”
somehow “knew,” before “she” was even born, while still in the womb, that “she”
was “female?”

Daily Trivia Quiz Answer

Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).

Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?

A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"

An Ode To Life

Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.

And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.

Fireworks of the Mind

Write It Up

Whence Shall Come Another?

True Then, True Now

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

Time Well Wasted

The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays